My great grandfather's journal from WW1

I have launched into a family history project and I spent the morning at my grandpa's house in Webster Groves, MO going through stacks of old things. I always knew grandpa saved everything - but it has been only recently that I have realized that all of the old things stacked up on his desk and in the corners of his old tudor house at 315 South Rock Hill Road have stories...

Earlier this week I discovered that the house where my grandpa grew up (540 S. Rock Hill Road - barely 2 blocks from where he lives now) was designed by his mother (Pearl) and built by his grandfather in 1930. They moved in when gramp was 10 years old. He still has the original plans tucked away somewhere in his attic and thinks that the current owners should probably have them... to keep with the house. It is gorgeous - he says 5 bedrooms.. I'll have to ask again how much it cost to build in 1930... I think he says they sold it after his parent's death for $115K - four times the cost of original construction - shortly thereafter it was valued at $450K. that was probably mid-1980's

The house was sold before I can remember, but I do remember driving past it as a kid on the way to grandpa and grandma's house and my mother telling me that that was the house where she would go visit her grandparents when she was my age. I will go by and take a picture of it and post it later on.

This week I started reading a few pages from my great-grandfather's journal from WW1. He had beautiful handwriting. It is one of those things you can only read in small doses. Maybe I will post an excerpt...